Translation:French Nursery Rhymes/Miss Arched-Back

by C. B.

MISS ARCHED-BACK

In our yard there grows a tree,
Which refuses to stand up straight.

In the house there grows a girl,
Who holds herself like a sickle.^[1]

Gardener, have you any stakes?^[2]
Take one, take two.

Drive the smaller one into the earth,
To take care of the obstinate tree.

As for Miss Arched-Back,
Place the larger one in her corset.

1. Faucille (s.f.), sickle.
2. Pieux (s.m.pl.), stakes.